Start your own Chicken Clubs
Have your free range groceries delivered and share the delivery fee!
How to start your own Chicken Clubs
Order all our free range products online and share the delivery fee
Chicken Clubs – buy direct from the farm and share delivery fee!
Many of our customers from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, get together as a group and order our free range products ONLINE or by email. This saves on the courier fee which gets divided amongst the members.
Why Chicken Clubs?
They are now actually Red Barn Food clubs because we sell a lot more than just chicken. 🙂 The name just stuck.
What to do
When you get a few friends together the first thing to do is to decide on ONE DELIVERY ADDRESS. That person will be our contact.
Name your chicken clubs
Something like “Karen’s Group” or “Belville ladies” Then decide on the day you would like your goods delivered. Cape Town Route is on TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS (sometimes the courier changes this to Friday) PE route is on TUESDAYS every second week.
Order online
Use your name and the delivery address of your group. When you are ordering online you will see a choice of delivery options, select the SHARED COURIER fee for chicken clubs only. We will take your order and calculate the shipping divided between everyone in the group.
Once everyone has ordered
Only then can we send you your invoice by email showing the shared delivery fee. We can only do this once all your group orders are in!
For example, the courier fee is R600 to Cape Town so if you have 6 people in the group you would each pay only R100.00!
We will deliver your chicken clubs goods together to the address given
Furthermore, we mark each bag with your individual names, so you know what is yours. It will also say on your invoice how many bags you have.
The goods arrive in polystyrene boxes which must be returned with the courier.
If you do not want to ORDER ONLINE you can simply call 044 876 0014 and place your order, 081 258 1725 to Whatsapp us, or email info@redbarn.co.za
Finally, don’t forget to tell us your order is part of “Jenny’s Group” so we can share the fee for you. There is a comment box on the final checkout page where you can message us anything to do with your order.
We suggest
You start a WhatsApp group for your chicken clubs so you can communicate about orders and deliveries.
You can have 2 or 20 members in your chicken clubs, that’s up to you!
Enjoy!
FAQ
If we haven’t answered your question here, please email us!
Where are we?
Red Barn is situated in the beautiful town of George in the Western Cape.
Our farm is very near the George airport, a few kilometers off the tar road. The view of the majestic Outeniqua mountain range, is something really spectacular.
Here is our Contact Page for Directions
Our Focus?
I always tell my customers, “we are not a health shop”. We do produce and sell a range of healthy foods, but it is not our main focus.
Our focus is ANIMAL WELFARE and Supporting LOCAL businesses
We aim to teach and educate people about the importance of Farm Animal Welfare. Our goal would be that all farm animals are allowed to roam freely and have their every need attended to by compassionate, well trained staff. Of course, we don’t believe in the use routine antibiotics!
Can we visit the farm?
We recently upgraded our original old RED BARN below …. to
Our new Shop – With COFFEE
What do we feed our chickens?
Feeding Chickens
Broiler chickens are fed a proper free range ration. Wherever possible, we try not to use ANY type of drugs or additives. Normal routine includes liquid Organum, electrolytes, diatoms and other natural products for medical purposes.
Non GMO chickens are bred by natural selection
They have not been genetically modified. Red Barn (and our growers) are mainly about animal welfare and we try our best to give our laying hens a healthy free-range diet. Whilst growing they can roam freely and eat goggo’s, grass, Lucerne, worms and whatever they fancy. However, they must be supplemented with grain as they are domesticated animals and would die of starvation if not fed by us.
REAL immune systems
The need for strong antibiotics just isn’t there! We’ve even had our chickens tested by a laboratory that now uses our chicken as placebo material to test other chicken against! Our chicken meat contains ZERO antibiotics or BRINE.
What products do we supply?
Our products:
Red Barn started off only selling chicken products, specifically, meat and eggs. We also had our own pigs, but had to give that up as they kept escaping and hurting the chickens. As we grew we met more and more local farmers who were growing wonderful products, (including broilers) but didn’t have the time or knowledge to process, package and market their goods. Then, we grew into buying in pork, lamb, beef and dairy. All locally sourced, but processed here at Red Barn. I know the farmers personally and many of them are close neighbors, like Milkwood Dairy whose farm is all around ours!
Products are made here on the farm in our small butchery.
Most of our products are vacuum sealed and slowly frozen. Mostly, we use non-irradiated, organic spices and herbs where possible. Some of our products do contain gluten, but there are many that do not. There is a whole section on our website for gluten free.
Our farmers:
Dairy from Milkwood Farm. They have a wonderful herd of cows that we look at every day! They are younger farmers thus, they have a website and a Facebook page! http://www.milkwoodfarm.co.za
Free Range Pork
Pork is grown by a long-time friend Martinus from Albertinia and Suntan Piggery. He is not a computer person or a cell phone person, however, he grows the best pigs ever! I have been to his farm many, many times and we just love what he does. He even grows his own feed for the pigs.
Beef is from another farming friend, Isak! He is another one who only grows grass fed cows and it is just a side-line for him. We are just lucky to have him deliver us quality beef, which we process into mince, sausages, burgers. In addition, Isak makes us the delicious biltong and droe wors. We also grow our own beef on Red Barn when the grazing is good enough.
Certified Karoo Lamb
Lamb is brought in from Laingsburg in the Karoo. It is certified free-range KAROO lamb. More details on request.
Other products
Supporting all local artisans and small businesses in important to us! Many people just do not have marketing skills and would rather focus on making all kinds of wonderful “goodies”. For this reason, Red Barn assists by taking care of their marketing. Berries are from the famous Redberry farm father on, just down the road!
Who do you sell to?
Marketing:
As a farm to fork business, therefore, we do not sell to ANY chain stores.
There are a few SELECT wholesalers but, our core customers are the general public from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town.
An overnight delivery service bringing our products to you directly. More about that on our website
Online shopping is easy to use, all drag and drop.
Group orders (chicken clubs) or food clubs are very popular.
A newsletter is sent out weekly and we post and advertise on Facebook frequently!
https://www.facebook.com/RedBarnChicken/
If you have any other queries
Please go to our shared folder on Google Drive for images, logos, information and more!
Browse this folder to find what you need, we will add documents regularly!
Laying hens
Do you sell live hens or day old chicks?
We do not ever sell day olds or live hens.
End of lay hens do not need to suffer at the hands of street vendors EVER!
Old hens and roosters are used by us to make Pet food.
Do you feed GMO’s?
This question is asked of us daily.
Mostly, people have just read scare stories in the media and are not fully informed. Unfortunately we do not have time to educate everyone on this intricate subject, however we do try!
Actively against Monsanto and Genetically Modified Organisms.
For sure, our chickens are NOT genetically modified. The fruit and vegetables you are buying, probably are!!! 🙂
If you would like to read our opinion on GMO’S please go to our Google drive. click here
Do you accept Credit Cards?
When do you deliver?
From George to Port Elizabeth
Every second Thursday with our van R120
George and surrounds
Thursday with our van R50
Mossel Bay
Wednesday with our van R60
George to Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Sedgefield, Wilderness
Friday with our van R40 Meet us at Old Nicks or
– R60 home or office delivery in Plett
Between George and Cape Town
Tuesday and Thursday by door to door courier R525
Courier
We use MTK Couriers to Cape Town. A small family owned company who are really attentive to our needs. We ship your goods in Polystyrene boxes which must be returned immediately with the courier as they are really expensive. We pay and arrange for the courier and we will let you know the drivers phone number.
The driver will have all your details and he will call you if he needs to arrange something with you.
Contact Red Barn
PLEASE NOTE!
We do not sell laying hens or day old chicks. In fact, we don’t sell any live chickens!